PAGE SIX Fg! Bi 1 ISH WHIG | 86TH YEAR Fablished Daily and Semi-Weekiy by HE BRITS WHIG PUBLISHING CO, LIMITED » ha he Bitlote . Presiden + Guild Editor and ng-Direetor TELEPHONES: Office .. Rooms . o SECS usine gaeea ob Offic SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Dally Edftion) One year, delivered In CIty ...... e year, if pald in advance .. 0 © year, by mall to rural offices §2 H ne year to United States 3.0 (Semi Sekly dition) One year, by mail, cash One 'year, If not paid in advance Dune gr to United States ix & 8.00 1.80 nd three months pro rata. UT-OF -TOWN REPRESENTATIVES § Bruce Owen, 22 St, John St, Montreal + M. Thompson? S52 Lumsden Bldg Tor. "R.Northrup, 225 R Tre th Ave. New York ER Northrup, 1510 Ass'n Bldx.. Chicagy Letters to the Editor are published galy over the wctual name of w -- Attachefl is one of the best job printing offices in Canada. [ et---------- The circulation of THE BRITISH tare PALL LEAN AAU UDA OA ORRNE Is vaksauwan, About the only piace where the { BOUs.ug Provietn 18 uot acule 18 ik | meniuvsdng. "idere vuua tues own buses of saow aid ice, "lu LU Mpaiora nas a cuauce LO raise tue rents 40 every account of Arctic explor- ation the igloo, or snow hut, built 80 dexterivusiy Dy toe kskimos, is Gescrived #8 a prominent feature or the lanascape. The i1gioo makes the £8KiO0 quae independent of the prolieering landlord, architect and builder, Nature provides the raw Mma- teria 18 Uniunited quantities at ev- ery snowfall The Eskimo cuts the irozen snow into blocks, places them in position according to a building formuia handed aown Irom genera- tion to generation----and the house is Bnished. Wien the walls show signs of distemper or dripping, a handful of snow freshens up things and in a few minutes the igloo is made as good as new. One advantage of this primitive method of housekuilding is that an Eskimo can; in a few hours, put up & perfectly comfortable, cold proof and---for his purposes---commodioiis home wherever he may happen to be. Rent profiteering, consequently, is Unknown in the Arctic region. But Bow along comes a proposition to change all that. The Eskimo in Alas- ka, says a despatch, are being induc- ed by the government to exchange their igloos for concrete houses. In the beginning, no doubt, every native will own his own, concrete house. When an Eskimo decides to remove, however, he will not be able to take it dlong with him in the hunt for seal or musk oxen or reindeer. He | will have to sell it to a real estate | man. Thus the profiteering landlord, tue natives THE eye day Civ. lization, and that if ground rents were paid"to the state popula- tion would 0§ distFibuied more even- | ly, vacant land would be brought in- to use, and industry and agriculture | greatly encouraged. Huddersfield, | which is a flourishing city in York- | Bhirs, with a normal population of 100,000, the ¢entre of a thriving weaving industry, could very well | test out for a curious world some of | the merits of the comtention that the | total annual ground rent of any piece | of land should go to the state. In the | first place, since the city has no need to make a profit, it can reduce rents | on its hundreds of municipally own- ed buildings to a point which will barely cover upkeep, repair and de- preciation. This policy should pres- ently enable it to buy the rest of the privately held territory---some 5,859 acres--go that the city will be its own landlord. We could them have a straightforward test to determine whether the people are happier and busier when the only landlord is the municipality, and is not seeking to profiteer, than under 'the usual hel- ter-skelter scheme of private owner- ship. | PUBLIC OPINION Bellies Above Bolshevism. (Toledo Blade) When their stomachs got as empty as their heads the hunger-striking Reds began to weaken. Want All the Luxuries. atterson Chronicle) A lot of people are now demand- Ing enough pay so they can afford to go out on strike. Unrest Explained. (Brockville Recorder) DAILY BRITISH ep ----------) | bought at a rival shop. * Let me 'weigh the package,' said the grocer [THs other asserted, and the package was found to weigh only eigh' pounds. The man locked perplexed for a moment and then sa'd: "Oh, i well, I don't think he cheated me, much; for while he was ge'ting the { sugar I pocketed two tins of conden- I" sed milk.' " f 0 -- CanadaEast and West | | Dominion Happeniugs of Other Days. & | Victoria Bridge. On the 17th of December, 1859, the first passenger train passed over the Victoria Bridge across the St. Lawrence River at Montreal. On the 25th of the following May the great structure was formally open- ed for traffic by His Roval Highness the Prince of Wales--in later life | King Edward VII. What this enterprise meant to the nation of thosé days Is little under- stood by the present generation. Tt was a terriMc work, begun after Years of preparatory experimenting, the first stong of the first pler hav- ing been laid on July 20, 1854. The contractors were from F--"snd; afl the iron came from Er * st each piece marked for its plac Nie the Stone wag from Pointe Claire, 1s was erected in strong tubular form rest- Ing on heavy stone abutments caleu- lated to resist the shove of the ice each spring. In the earlier part of | ithe work construction could proceed {only during the summer months. The | estimated cost of the work was seven | million dollars, but it was complet- {ed for about half a million less. In | tater years the tubular system was removed, and now the structure is of the usual open' variety. It carries now two lines of steam rails, one of WHIG " WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1019 SummErnynarEeEEsc: | oo ---- See Bibbys © $25.00 Overcoats BIBB ve See Bibbys - $2.00 Wool Scarfs} want to examine. electric and a waggon road, beside a | sidewalk for pedestrians. It is light- ed by electricity its full length. The | i total length is 9,184 feet. There are | | twenty-five spans, while it is sixty | e never frown if look. We have no "cranks" We never grumble, no matter how many suits a customer may people think enough of our store an Men's and Young Men's W car Where the New Things are Shown First in this store. 2 We lose a sale. We're glad of the fact that d clothes to come in for a ho WHIG is authenticated by th» ¢ \ We're cheerfil--always, ? We ve found it pays and besides -- | instead of the igloo, is bound to be- come the- dominant feature of the Arctic landscape. We hope the effort Some of the woollen underwear | {feet from the bed of the river to the | recently donned may have something | under side of the control span under | AB Audit Burean of Cirerlations. to do with the nation- ~-wide spirit of | which the river boats pass. It is | A scientist has predicted'that the world will come to an end to-day. If you read this paragraph to-night you will be convinced that he is a false prophet. +A recently issued bank report de- elares that reckless buying acts di- rectly to postpone the return to low- . #r prices. Recklessness is one of the characteristics of the day. As a thank offering for reducing the water, gas and electricity rates the citizens might well return ail the commissioners by acclamation! One thing is certain: no better body of men could possibly be selected. . Keen interest Is being shown in municipal affairs this year, with the result that a large number of candi- dates for office will be nominated. This is as it should be, and will be conducive to better civic government next year. Despite the severe losdes sustained during the war, the deposits in a group of English banks increased from 439 miliiens pounds in June, 1914, to 1,604 millions in June, 1919. It fs a marvellous achieve- ment, and points to the educational effects of the thrift campaigns. at -- A cable despatch from Vienna, via London, says that food conditions in Austria have become so desperate that cannibalism has been resorted to. The haughty nation that insisted upon crushing little Serbia, and: thus Brought on the great war, is realiz- ing the truth of the fundamental law that they who sow the wind shall -Teap- the whirlwind, Thomas Hewitt, Utilities Commis- 7 stoner, has performed a valuable ser- «+ viee to the city by his thorough in- vestigation and able criticism-of the report of the Canadian Underwriters' inspector coneerning the city water- works. Mr. Hewitt's report will be presented to council, and: that body shoald take action upon'it. Kings "ton has been unfairly . treated for many years, and some redress ought aow to be insisted upon. Er A Toronto physician, Dr. 8. M. Hayes, surgeon-in-chief at the Wes- tern hospital, declares that nursed should work twelve hours & day, "basing his argument on the claim ~ that after the first two or three days on a case the work fs very light. If the eight-hour day were adopted, he says, a very sick patient would re- quire three nurses, at a cost of $75 & week or more. Moral: get your life Beawily insured, and be prepared to die in case you are taken sick. FUNLOW DER AND STEAM. ut significance that Aoi oe won turned out | many engines of destruction, is 'prepared to manufacture 300 motives a year. The first ex- of this post bellum aétivity reed will fail. The denizens of the frozen regions have troubles enough already in their fierce struggle for existence, VOMPULSORY MILITIA TRAINING On Monday it was intimated that the Minister of Militia and Leéience expected that some measure of com- puisory milit.a service would be in- troduced in Canada. In spite of the fact that there is a tendency all over tae world to redpce the size of arm- 8 and to reduce armaments, this innovation would without doubt be one of great benefit to the manhood oi tae country generally. The value of militia training was amply de- monstrated during the war. The men who had served im the m.litia during pre-war days, to a very large extent, made up the earlier Canadian con- tingents; certain it is that the first contingent was almost entirely com- posed of men who had done previous misua traanang. the ofticers of that divis.on were men who had been trained in, their duties in the years prior to the war. The manner in which they made good showed that their earlier training was invaluable to them, and forms a strong argu- ment in favor of making miltia training compulsory, as is done in Austmlia, New Zealand and other countries. Apart altogether from the value of this from a military standpoint (and in case of another war, the same result would be seen from the militia training), the young men of Canada would be the greatest béne- ficiaries from their connection with the militia. Under military training men of poor physique were built up, and thousands of physical weaklings were made strong. The rigorous life of the army training made men of boys, and had it not been for the ter rible slaughter of the best manhood of the country, the benefits would have been lasting. They will be last- ing if every young man has fo under- koa period of training such as is gl- ven in the Canadian militia. The drill, the physical training, and tar- got practice all go to bring out the weak spots in any man's physical make-up, and to remedy them, and the social connections would do much to foster a greater spirit of comradeship and brotherhood. Those who have been members of the mili- tia will all testify to its value as a training medium for young men, and should such training become compulsory it will be to the advan tage of the individual man and of the country as a whole. POR HENRY GEORGE'S FOLLOW The .town of Huddersfield, Eng- land, is about to embark Wpon an in- teresting experiment, More than half the real estate in the city has been owned by a single family, and is for sale. Through the kindness of a mil- lionaire Australian, who 'was born ia the British town, the whole proper the municipal authorities, The mil« onaire has agreed to purchase from Of the yards last -week- | tiie estate and to resell to-the city a the cost price on such terms he ty of 6,000 acres will be bought by ; unrest. ------------------------ The Cause of It. (New Orleans States) We are strongly inclined to the be- lief that the general restlessness re- 'ported among the people is the re- sult of so many of them taking too much rest. onus a Wee. ttawa Journal) After the Civil War there Strikes, riots, inflated prices, misgiving for the future. is repeating. you can, and things will become nor- mal in good time. Loading Up Chickens. (Hamilton Times) Some twenty-five tons of real es- tate In the form of sand and gravel and masquerading as 30 cents a pound chicken almost got into the New York market this week to be sold to the ultimate consumer--or goat. The 60,000 pounds of sand and gravel reposed in the crops of 50,000 live chickens which reached the Jer- sey City yards in eight carloads. They were detected in time, Is this a new or an old wrinkle? Christmas Gifts, (Kitchener Telegraph) were | and | History | Sit tight. laugh when | { sti a wonderful work of untold! | value to the commerce of the coun- | try, but when it was first erected it | was one of the great sights of the na- tion. It Is the connecting line be-. tween the inland provinces of the | Dominion and the Atlantic coast. ii Hsing : The Reason Why What Makes the Bubbles Explode? Sometimes we blow soap bubbles, We mix soap In the water and that makes the walls of the water ball which we ®roduce a little tougher, and it requires a great deal more effort for the air to escape from it, as the soap keeps the water in the walls of the bubble from running down to the bottom for quite some time, and. -therefore, soap bubbles will often travel in the air for some distance. The colors we see on soap bubbles are produced by the rays of sunlight, which strike the bubble and reflect them back to us in colors very similar to those of the rainbow. ~--From the Book of Wonders. Published fd copyrighted by .the Bureau of dustrial'Baucation, Ine., Washington, D.. C. To-day the great majority of the holiday gifts are substantial and use- ful articles that people really wan' No Christmas gift is worth makin unless it has some practical use o permanent beauty for home decore tion. In the case of children it i- hard to draw a positive line. Bu in a general way a toy that won't give them good solid wear isn't worth giving. The most suitable gifts for the youngsters are those that help hem develop physically and mental- ---------- Beats Captain Kidd, wt (Youth's Companion) > Pirated and buccaneers are by no means characters of the remote past only. A recent despatch from Con- stantinople reports that pirstes who had concealed themselves in the steerage of the ship Maria, bound from Novorossiysk to Batum, over- powered the crew and robbed the passengers of about $6,000,000; Messrs. Morgan and Kidd and John Silver and even old Flint himself would have taken an unholy pride in so rich a booty, Nickel Coinige. (Montreal Herald) The proposal that Canada should adopt nickel for coinage of small de- nomination, which was proposed at the Ontario board of trade meeting by the Sudbury representatives and carried unanimously, is dne which has frequently been miggested to successive governments but never acted upon. Fifty-four countries use nickel coinage, while Canada with eighty-five per cent. of the world's nickel, have no nickel coins. A Stand-Off. (Washington Post) "The never-ending tween capital and labor reminds me," says Senator Johnson, 'of a suspic- fous looking customer who was 10 a grocer 3 boasting of the cheapness| 3 of ten pounds of sugar 'that he had hae LR. B. W. TURNER Who nts out some of the weak- nesses in Canada's work of civil re establishment. Why Stay Fat? You Can Reduce The answer of most fat pebple | is that that it is too hard, too troub the wel dangerous to force gh do Tavtetn i all t Ry culties are over-. : Solid 1 vory PS. 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